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ledons almost filiform. — From Butte Co. southward on the plains of the 

 interior, and also in the hill country about San Bernardino. A strictly 

 annual species, the early state of which appears with one or more almost 

 scapiform long peduncles rising from a compact tuft of radical leaves. 

 Lindley's figure of E. coinpacta may be conceived to represent the 

 maturer state of a plant which I in 1888 described as new, bvit the plate 

 does not indicate the peculiarly thin and delicate texture, nor the very 

 slenderly attenuate form of the calyx as displayed in my type; but 

 specimens from the plains of the lower San Joaquin are more at agree- 

 ment with the figure. Mar. — May. 



* * Annuals; the torus vnth no spreading rim (except in n. 6); 



cotyledons entire. 



■i— Branching and leafy above; peduncles subterete, 8-striate. 



6. E. ambi^aa. Slender, branching from the base, decumbent, glau- 

 cous and scabrous-puberulent throughout, 1 ft. high or less: leaves 

 small, ternately dissected, the ultimate segments short, approximate in 

 threes: calyx ovate-acuminate, about 4 lines long, or 5: torus small, but 

 with ample rim: petals deep yellow, 1 in. long or less: pods 1 in. long 

 or more: mature seeds unknown. — In fields near Oholame, San Luis 

 Obispo Co., Mr. & Mrs. Lemmon. Species connecting the two very 

 natural sections of the genus. The general aspect is that of E. hypecoides ; 

 the conspicuously rimmed torus forbids its being joined to that species, 

 and would bring it nearer to Lower Californian E. peninsularis, to 

 which, however, it can by no means be referred. 



7. E. hypecoides, Benth. Trans. Hort. Soc. 1. c. (1834): E. Auslime, 

 Greene, Bull. Calif. Acad. i. 69 (1885). Scabrous- or even hirsute-pubes- 

 cent below, glabrous above, glaucescent: branches many from the 

 annual root, decumbent at base, 1 ft. high or less, slender, sparingly 

 leafy: leaves small; segmentsrather few, linear-cuneiform: calyx oblong- 

 conical, 3^ in. long, abruptly slender-pointed: torus short-tubular, 1'^ 

 lines deep; outer margin a mere herbaceous ring, the inner erect, hyaline: 

 petals 1 in. long: seeds with a faint irregular reticulation. — Widely dis- 

 persed along the foothills from southern Oregon, Howell, to Santa Cruz 

 and Kern counties in this State. In cultivation at Berkeley, this is 

 greatly admired on account of the rich profusion of small flowers. It 

 was at first mistaken by me for a perennial. The early flowering state 

 exhibits few and somewhat scapiform long peduncles. Apr. — June. 



8. E. minutiflora, Wats. Proc. Am. Acad. xi. 122 (1876). Size and 

 habit of the preceding, though more slender, more freely branching and 

 with shorter peduncles: fl. very small (only I4 in. broad): capsule very 

 slender, 13^2 i^- long: seeds nearly smooth, scarcely ^2 ^^'^^ thick. — Of the 

 desert regions along the eastern base of the Sierra; probably in Mono 

 and Inyo counties. 



-1— •)— Subacaulescent; scapose peduncles quadrangular. 



